This book explores research that attempts to deepen theorizing and elaborate upon the practical implications of women's efforts to negotiate and resist the dominant discourse, and to create counterstories for their lives.
This book explores research that attempts to deepen theorizing and elaborate upon the practical implications of women's efforts to negotiate and resist the dominant discourse, and to create counterstories for their lives.
Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. Before accepting a faculty position in 2003, Suzanne had been a practicing social worker for 15 years, working with women in a range of fields of practice. Her scholarly interests include women's experiences of rape, trauma and youth homelessness, women's use of counter-stories in response to oppressive conditions, and narrative care with older adults. Michelle N. Lafrance is Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, Canada. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Michelle's teaching and research interests are in the areas of critical and feminist psychology, including women's experiences of depression, and the social construction of distress, gender, and sexuality.
Inhaltsangabe
1.Women counter-storying their lives, Lafrance & McKenzie-Mohr 2. Language and stories in motion, DeVault 3. Beyond 'coming out': Lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa, Gibson & Macleod 4. Bodies talk: On the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories, Chadwick 5. Counter-storying rape: Women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making, McKenzie-Mohr 6. "I used to think I was going a little crazy": Women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change, Ussher & Perz 7. Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence, Boonzaier 8. "Oh it was good sex!": Heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex, Farvid 9. Depression as oppression: Disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness, Lafrance 10. 'Girly-girls', 'scantilly-clad ladies' and policewomen: Negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space, Rickett 11. Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk, Brown 12. Women's discursive resistance: Attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change, McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance
1.Women counter-storying their lives, Lafrance & McKenzie-Mohr 2. Language and stories in motion, DeVault 3. Beyond 'coming out': Lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa, Gibson & Macleod 4. Bodies talk: On the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories, Chadwick 5. Counter-storying rape: Women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making, McKenzie-Mohr 6. "I used to think I was going a little crazy": Women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change, Ussher & Perz 7. Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence, Boonzaier 8. "Oh it was good sex!": Heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex, Farvid 9. Depression as oppression: Disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness, Lafrance 10. 'Girly-girls', 'scantilly-clad ladies' and policewomen: Negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space, Rickett 11. Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk, Brown 12. Women's discursive resistance: Attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change, McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance
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